Trump's military action threat alarms Nigeria
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has suggested the US could deploy troops to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he called the killing of Christians by Islamist insurgents. Unfounded claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria have been circulating in American right-wing religious circles for months. A Nigerian presidential adviser said jihadists in the Muslim-majority north of the country were attacking all religious communities, but that Abuja would welcome US help in tackling the Islamist insurgents.
Also: the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash has told the BBC that he feels he is the luckiest man alive. Officials in Iran warn the main source of drinking water for residents of Tehran is at risk of running dry within two weeks. Flight delays continue across the US, as air traffic controllers working without pay due to the government shutdown are now calling in sick. The Maldives brings in the world's only generational smoking ban, and cricket fans across India celebrate the women's national side winning their first ever World Cup.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Book. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Jean-Urille, and at Five Hours GMT on Monday the 3rd of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Donald Trump says he won't rule out airstrikes or deploying American troops to protect Christians in Nigeria, |
| 0:24.3 | who he claims, without proof, are being slaughtered by Islamist extremists. |
| 0:29.4 | Delays increase at American airports as the US government shutdown enters its second month. |
| 0:37.7 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | We won the World Cup for the first time in history |
| 0:41.8 | and I feel really good about it. |
| 0:44.2 | And the stadium was completely full |
| 0:45.9 | and the environment, it was too good. |
| 0:48.4 | Indians celebrate after their team |
| 0:50.6 | win the women's cricket World Cup |
| 0:52.7 | for the first time. |
| 1:05.7 | Donald Trump was re-elected president on a pledge to bring peace and end U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts. But now a day after threatening military action against Nigeria over what he says without proof is the mass |
| 1:13.3 | slaughter of Christians by Islamist extremists. He has doubled down on that threat. He told reporters on |
| 1:20.4 | Air Force One that the U.S. could send troops to Nigeria or carry out airstrikes there. |
| 1:26.0 | They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria. |
| 1:31.4 | And they have other countries very bad also. |
| 1:34.5 | You know that part of the world very bad. |
| 1:37.1 | They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. |
| 1:40.8 | It's not going to allow that to happen. |
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